Northwestern business and crop outlook in midsummer
Minneapolis dispatch notes better than expected crop prospects in Montana and Minnesota with North and South Dakota near normal. fall buying underway, merchants upbeat though money tight at 6 percent interest. Duluth reports strong wholesale demand, rising bank clearings, and active building. Kansas and Oklahoma show mixed farm yields but overall good prospects. Local trade in Kansas City and Devils Lake features, with crop and livestock conditions improving and new local ventures announced.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Montana
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Northwest
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Duluth
Kansas
Kansas City
Oklahoma
Samples column sparks travel notes and gossip
The Inter-Ocean launches a weekly Samples column inviting reader submissions to fill a sanitary, partly truthful column. Dan O Connell drew interest at the ball park last Sunday as U C T supporters hoped he would umpire but he stayed on the bench. Camera checkpoints at gates let him appear publicly without photos afterward. Devils Lake expense lines show extra mileage forChautauqua stock talks and a rumor of a Mother on date hints at further travel gossip.
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Inter-Ocean
Watt
Dan O'Connell
Ball Park
Dan
Devils Lake
Chautauqua
The Little Gardener and The Lost Fairy Tale
A children’s piece narrates a brown boy inviting a townbound child to his garden with roses, daisies, and lavender. The Lost Fairy follows Love the fairy saving Daisy and freeing elves from a witch and wizard in a moon realm, restoring balance and joy. A final birds’ list hints at phonetic bird calls.
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Sunny Land
Daisy
Love
Daisy Meadow
Witch
Wisard
Wielard
Bird chatter echoes in neighborhood language mystery
A mysterious parlance unfolds as small birds visit the area, their calls sounding like English yet likely conveying an entirely different meaning to those who listen. The snippet suggests a seasonal pattern of avian visitors and their curious, undeciphered sounds.
Origin of Cocoanut Spelling A Proofreader Error
Sir Edward Ian Thurn describes a Royal Horticultural Society talk on how the coconut got its name. He notes the nut resembles a monkey face and links the Portuguese word coco to god or grimace. A Johnson dictionary entry allegedly misread as covenant, a spelling kept since.
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Royal Horticultural Society
London
Edward Ian Thurn
Fiji
Norwegian Goat Girls Task of Caring for Goats
In Norway girls help their farmers by tending large goat flocks. They watch grazing goats, milk, and salt them. The salt bag draws goats into a clumsy crowd as they lick the handler s hand after each dip. The girls nurture the kids and form bonds with the herd.
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Norway
Mexican evolutionists silent in heat as patriots stir later
The text notes that during the heat of the sun Mexican evolutionists remain quiet, but when cooler weather enables hoeing corn, a renewed outburst of patriotism is anticipated. The remark frames a seasonal shift in public sentiment.
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Gram Construction Company
Gram
Lake
St. Paul, Minn
Killion
J. L
Alec Watson
Northen
Greenwood
Mayer
U. C. T. Baseball Artillery
Ben Cullen
Cudahy Packing Company
Butch” Severyn
Ham
Bacon
Severyn
George Chaffee
Horton Motor Co
Noth Dakota
Fargo
K. T. Samples
Boban
Brennan
Henry G. Middaugh
WM. Bateson
R. F. Hunt
Lawyers
LockeGram
Wehe
Brennan Block
C. J. McGarren
Helen L. Young
Locke-Gram Block
W. F. Sihler
G. J. McIntosh
DRS
Clinton Smith
Bangs Block
W. C. Follett
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